Generous Quotes - Page 37

• The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

  Emily Post

  Guests, Host, Hospitality

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• If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

  Liz Murray

  Giving, Water, Want

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• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

  George Saunders

  Life Is Short, Trying, Ifs

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• To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Heaven

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• A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without reducing it by very much. She may, on the other hand, simply decide to enjoy the eighty percent, and both of them will be happy.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Husband, Hands, Expectations

  "Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother". Book by Carolyn Mahaney, 2003.

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• People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

  Chris Prentiss

  Believe, People, Luck

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.124, BookBaby

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• While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Land

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Attitude, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.240

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• Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, World, Spirit

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New Self”, p.234, Random House

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• Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Safety, Feelings, World

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• When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

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• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Adversity, Friendly, Faces

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• Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

  Jim Gerlach

  Senior, Numbers, Offering

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• GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mean, Generosity, Noble

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.94, University of Georgia Press

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• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  Paddy Ashdown

  Way, Return, Comeback

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

  Peter DeFazio

  Meaningful, Oil, Campaigns

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• My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fun, War

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• She's wearin' heels, boy, but she's five foot seven, you got five inches and at least a hundred pounds on her," Max replied and I figured he was being a might bit generous with the weight but I wasn't going to correct him, mostly because he wasn't done talking. "And, lastly, she's a woman. You don't ever strike a woman in anger.

  Kristen Ashley

  Boys, Talking, Feet

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• Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

  Sidney Altman

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Government

  Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Compelling Reason, Offering

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• No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

  Anne Bronte

  Mind, Delight, Cherish

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Pain, Men

  "Oliver Twist".

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• If you feel something calling you to dance or write or paint or sing, please refuse to worry about whether you're good enough . Just do it. Be generous. Offer a gift to the world no one else can offer : yourself.

  Glennon Melton

  Healing, Writing, Worry

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• When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Light, Each Day

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